Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Signed Limited Edition Complete 3-Volume Set of 350 [Sealed]

Personally signed by Milan Kundera, who achieved international fame because he uniquely blended philosophical depth, political rebellion, and erotic comedy into a highly experimental narrative style.

This is the acclaimed writings of the world renowned master

Easton Press 2012. Milan Kundera. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Signed limited edition 3-volume complete matching set. Luxuriously bound with full genuine leather. This coveted 3-volume trilogy was strictly limited to only 350 sets and features a personal autograph by Milan Kundera himself. As New, sealed in the shrink-wrap without any flaws. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Brown leather hardcovers, uniform cover designs, and design stamped on the front cover. Dimensions: 5 3/4" x 8 3/8".

3 Volume Set in one shipment: 

1. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Signed Limited Edition [Sealed]

2. "The Festival of Insignificance". Translated from the Czech by Linda Asher. Includes COA [Sealed]

3. "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim [Sealed]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

International Bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, acclaimed author Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples: a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

The Festival of Insignificance

“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston Globe

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an entertaining and enchanting novel—"a fitting capstone on an extraordinary career." (Slate)

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism—that’s The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Milan Kundera’s earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the “unserious” in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author’s wife, says to her husband: “you’ve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it…I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait.”

Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the landmark literary philosophical novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.